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What Happened When Christians Stopped Allegorizing Canaan?

March 8, 2022 by Randal

During the Reformation, Protestants widely rejected the allegorized interpretations of the Canaanite genocide that had become de rigueur since Origen. With that safeguard gone, it was not long before they were appealing to Joshua to justify their own genocides. To illustrate, here is a passage from Philip Jenkins, Laying Down the Sword: And don’t think […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: genocide, history, Jesus Loves Canaanites, Philip Jenkins

William Lane Craig Says God May Command Us to “Drive Out Canaanites” in Our Day. I Respond.

December 11, 2021 by Randal

Reasonable Faith just posted a short video from William Lane Craig in which the esteemed apologist defends the prospect that God may command Christians today to target people groups in the same way that the ancient Israelites targeted the Canaanites for extermination. In this video, I provide a response. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, genocide, Jesus Loves Canaanites, William Lane Craig

Prolife Christians Who Support Child Killing

October 12, 2021 by Randal

Defending the morality of the Canaanite genocide has disastrous consequences for a consistent Christian ethic as I explain in this video. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: abortion, biblical violence, genocide, infanticide, Jesus Loves Canaanites, moral epistemology, moral knowledge

Quick Replies to William Lane Craig’s Bad Talking Points on the Canaanite Genocide

October 10, 2021 by Randal

William Lane Craig has made truly impressive contributions to a range of deep philosophical and theological topics. His defense of biblical atrocities like the Canaanite genocide is a notable exception. In this article, I offer some responses to excerpts from his response to a listener question about the Canaanite genocide. Craig says: “The slaughter of […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, Canaanites, genocide, William Lane Craig

The Extraordinary Evil of Dehumanizing Rhetoric Against the Canaanites

September 15, 2021 by Randal

Today, I was reading commentaries on Proverbs 20:30, a verse which commends physically beating people as a way to inculcate wisdom and goodness in them: “Blows and wounds scrub away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being.” (Imagine how much pain and anguish has been inflicted on people as those in power cauterized their feelings […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, Canaanites, genocide

The Treatment of the Canaanites is Unique and Unrepeatable? Rebutting a Popular Genocide Apologetic

June 20, 2021 by Randal

One of the common gambits of the Christian apologists who defend the Canaanite genocide is to insist that the narrative does not provide a general justification for genocide because the circumstances were “unique and unrepeatable”. (For example, that is a description I have heard Paul Copan use on different occasions.) The statement seems to have […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, biblical violence, genocide

Frank Turek on the Slaughter of the Canaanites. And My Response.

June 2, 2021 by Randal

The perfectly awful apologetic defense of the Canaanite slaughter in this clip concisely captures why I wrote Jesus Loves Canaanites. Let’s begin with the video (it’s only six minutes). I’ll then post my commentary below. ? The video begins with a question posed by the moderator of what appears to be an in-church training event. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Canaanites, Frank Turek, genocide

God and Genocide: An Interview with Critical Witness

May 18, 2021 by Randal

Today, I did an interview with an English podcast called Critical Witness. It was a very spirited discussion. These fellows aren’t afraid to push back and ask hard questions. Check it out! ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: genocide, interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites

The Bible and Genocide: The Adherent Apologetics Interview

May 14, 2021 by Randal

In this interview, I discuss my new book Jesus Loves Canaanites with Zac of Adherent Apologetics. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, genocide, interview, Jesus Loves Canaanites

God of Genocide? My Debate with John Loftus

May 4, 2021 by Randal

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Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, biblical violence, debate, genocide, John Loftus

Driving Out the Canaanites? On a failed attempt to re-brand biblical genocide

April 22, 2021 by Randal

The heart and foundation of Christianity is belief in a God who is worthy of worship: in the words of Anselm, that being than which none greater can be conceived. And so, when the Bible depicts God as acting in a manner that appears to be less-than-perfect, this creates a challenge for the Christian reader. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: biblical violence, genocide, Jesus Loves Canaanites, Just War Interpreters

Does God command genocide in the Bible?

September 24, 2020 by Randal

In this video, I offer a response to a short clip from an interview between Sean McDowell and Charlie Trimm. For the full McDowell interview, see here.    

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Charlie Trimm, genocide, Sean McDowell

Is abortion a genocide?

January 4, 2020 by Randal

Dear fellow Pro-Lifers, Please do not refer to support for elective abortion as a “genocide”. The word “genocide” has a specific meaning in international law: it refers to the attempt to destroy an ethnic, religious, or cultural identity. To be sure, genocidaires may use abortion as a means to destroy an ethnic, religious and/or cultural […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: abortion, bioethics, genocide, rhetoric

Special Pleading or Therapy? The J. Warner Wallace Dilemma

May 31, 2017 by Randal

Popular Christian apologists have a problem. On the one hand, they are strident defenders of objective moral knowledge, often to the end of defending a moral argument for God’s existence. On the other hand, they defend readings of the violence portrayed in the Bible that appear inconsistent with that aforementioned commitment to objective moral knowledge. […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Amalekites, Bible, ethics, genocide, moral knowledge, Warner Wallace

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